Okay, maybe I was being too hard on the Xbox One yesterday. Let’s start fresh with an examination of Microsoft’s plans to let gamers lend and borrow the videogames that they’ve purchased. Xbox One is designed so game publishers can enable you to give your disc-based games to your friends. There are no fees charged […]
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The New Xbox Is a $500 Happy Fun Ball
Given my past 20-plus years of gaming habits, I should be excited about Microsoft’s new Xbox, even if it does have a dumb name. But now that they’ve started releasing info about their new console, Microsoft has done a phenomenal job demonstrating all the reasons I don’t want an Xbox One. (Yes. “Xbox One.” See? […]
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Anita Sarkeesian’s Damsel in Distress Series Continues, and Continues Being Great
Videogames need more commentary like Anita Sarkeesian’s. Her ongoing (and insanely controversial successful) series Damsels in Distress posted its second installment yesterday; just as the first one was, it’s well worth your time, whether you play videogames or just live in a society where all other media—TV, books, comics, and especially film—are increasingly influenced by […]
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Steven Spielberg Presents Halo: The Television Series
Today saw the reveal of Microsoft’s newest gaming console, the Xbox One. The console looks like a VCR from 1985, and in keeping with that motif, Microsoft spent about 2 hours telling you all the cool and interesting ways you can watch TV on it. Then there were 15 minutes of games you’ll be able […]
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The O Takes Its Shot at Bureau Assignments. Here’s Ours!
No one should be too surprised that Mayor Charlie Hales has decided to deviate from a posted schedule that had him handing back, right about now, all the bureaus he took from his colleagues in February as part of his new-look budget process—something the Oregonian has definitively reported this morning. Hales made the move to […]
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RIP, LucasArts
From Day of the Tentacle In news that’s hardly surprising—but still pretty depressing, at least for a guy like me, who started playing videogames in the ’90s—Disney has shut down LucasArts, the videogame division of LucasFilm. After acquiring LucasFilm for billions of billions of billions of dollars and then instantly greenlighting a slew of new […]
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Father of the Year Puts Plumber in Peril
In case you missed this story over the weekend like I did, here’s your morning dose of awesome parenting: When Mike Mika saw the disappointment on his daughter’s face when she realized Pauline wasn’t a playable character in Donkey Kong, he felt a call to action. Thankfully Mika happens to be a competent developer, and […]
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I Fixed Monopoly For You
Monopoly is about fucking everyone over. That’s all its ever been about, and if you try to play the game in a fair and reasoned fashion, that’s a good way to find yourself in the fifth hour of self-induced Monopoly coma, politely rolling dice, shedding skin cells and letting loose successively larger and larger yawns […]
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New Ridiculous Tomb Raider Comic Cover to Follow Proud Tradition of Old Ridiculous Tomb Raider Comic Covers
Ah, the late ’90s and the early ’00s! Now that was a time for comic books, my friends. Comic books like Tomb Raider! Rock Climbing: The Comic! Based on the videogame series, Top Cow’s Tomb Raider comics started in 1999 and ran for 50 issues. Which leads me to today’s news from Dark Horse Comics: […]
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Actual Movie Director to Attempt Making a Non-Terrible Videogame Movie
via cosplayoverload.com, perhaps the most accurately named site ever As someone who loved Duncan Jones’ Moon but was disappointed by his follow-up, Source Code, I find this news… interesting. Duncan Jones is making the jump to big-budget tentpole movies, signing on to direct Warcraft, Legendary Pictures’ live-action adaptation of Blizzard Entertainment’s video game universe…. Taking […]
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I Forgot Something
Yes, you definitely should buy me everything in the wish list I put together in this week’s issue. However, I forgot something very, very important. THIS: That is all. Thank you. They don’t really let you see the goods in that video, but pictures and details are here.
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Even David Fincher Sucks at Adapting Videogames
Back when Halo 3 was about to come out, Microsoft hired Neill Blomkamp—who’d go on to make District 9—to do some live-action ads for the game. They were neat! For Halo 4, Microsoft’s tapped visual effects guy Tim Miller (director) and motherfuckin’ David Fincher (producer) to make this, which… is neither as good nor as […]